Belvedere, California.
Typical home $5,028,748 (+11.3% in a year). San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley, CA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$12,980 (+97%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $512,372 +11%
- $4,516,375$5,028,748 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $592,814 +13%
- $4,435,933$5,028,748 since Sep 2021
Monthly payment to buy the typical home
Home value × that month's 30-year mortgage rate, 20% down, principal and interest. This is the line households feel: prices and rates compound each other.
- Belvedere$26,395
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 28 years.
Typical home values in Belvedere, CA rose 11.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Belvedere, Marin County, California
Belvedere is a city of 2,126 people in Marin County. 68% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 32% are rented. Unemployment in Marin County was 4.4% in August 2026, and the county had 0.8% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in professional services, then finance and property.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 23 October 2026 from the figures here, a list of nearby places and what it knows. It can be wrong or out of date.
What it’s like
The place. Belvedere is a small city on the Marin County side of San Francisco Bay, with far fewer residents than most California cities. Homes here are lived in by their owners more often than across much of the country, and typical home values are among the highest anywhere. Incomes in the county run well above those in most places, and nearly all adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are mild and wet, with January the coldest month, and September is the warmest month, with warm but not hot afternoons. Snow is rare.
Work. Residents work mostly in professional and business services, banking, insurance and property, schools and hospitals, and shops. Many more people work from home than across the country as a whole, and those who do travel to a job face a longer commute than many Americans. Across Marin County, some of the largest workplaces are BioMarin Pharmaceutical, MarinHealth Medical Center and Novato Unified school district.
Things to do. San Francisco is a short drive away and holds most of the area's best-known sights. Golden Gate Park is a large public garden, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is a museum, and Lombard Street is a famous tourist attraction. Muir Woods National Monument, a protected area of old redwoods, is also a short drive away.
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- 886households
- 87%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 31 mintypical commute
- 59%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Marin County had 110,071 jobs in 2025, 0.8% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 58° and lows near 44°; warmest in September, with highs near 75° and lows near 56°. About 24 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Richmond weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Marin County
- BioMarin PharmaceuticalPatent medicine preparations manufacturing2,086
- Marinhealth Medical CenterGeneral hospital1,429FTE
- Township Building ServicesJanitorial services1,257
- Ultragenyx - NovatoBiotechnology research and development laboratories or services in genetics691
- Novato UnifiedSchool district685FTE
- Dominican University of CaliforniaUniversity or college541
- College of MarinTwo-year college508
- KFH - San RafaelGeneral hospital489FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 152 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 17,838 people in all across the county; Belvedere has one of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24); FTE marks full-time equivalent staff. Not listed: many offices and banks, which need not report to OSHA; military bases, whose staff OPM withholds; and, in about half the states, city and county governments.
Natural hazards
- Inland floodingVery high
- Coastal floodingRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- TsunamisRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Belvedere’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. It is meant for planning, not a substitute for a local risk assessment or a flood map: FEMA’s index.
From the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 census and its American Community Survey (2020–2024 five-year estimates), and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A survey, so each figure has a margin of error, and figures it is not sure of are left out. More on Marin County and the San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley, CA metro.
Belvedere home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Belvedere$5,028,748
- California$761,538
- United States$366,157
When this market ran hot
Each cell is that month's year-on-year home-value growth. Read left to right, top row is the latest year — the 2021–22 band is the boom.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Belvedere7
Zip codes with a Belvedere address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Belvedere — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.